The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-08-19

the door? Well, one night Isent a
ball through after him. No use."
We talked for some time and then
began reading again. | kept ~glancing
at the clock, however, and when we
were within five minutes OF midnight |
could no longer fix my attention on
my book. At last the clock slowly
tolled out the hour.
"Well," said Lyt, ~ suppose he
don't like to call on two at a time"
and the sturdy fellow blew out his
candle and turned over to go so sleep.
He had hardly done so when the heavy
step shook the room. l kept silent.
Was it my Imagination? No; for Lyt
wheeled over and faced me withanoth-
er smile Of triumph. l leaped from
my bed and laid my hand upon the
knob.
Catch him by the ears" said Lyt,
"anl haul him in. Let's see what he
looks like
l leaped into the hall as before, and
with the same result. Ladies and
gentlemen, that is the end of my little
ghost story. 1t has no denoument;
but that is not my fault; you will
have to blame the ghost for that"
After innumerable comments and
questions Ito all which Mr. May stead
lily replied that his story was literally
true in every particularly, one OF the
young ladies asked Uncle Billy what
he thought OF it. "Was it a ghost?"
son, no, young mistress; dat warn't
no ghost. Billy kin tell you dat, sho!
Billy know a ghosts experiments same
as he eat he breakfast. Is / aver see
a ghost, you ak me? See a ghost? /
believe you! Chooses? Why when l
used to go to my wife's
house, I don't mean this Sally
but MIR. Cabell's MiIly, | was seekin
religion in dem days, an l 'Clar TO
de Land when | used to pass de old
ruinjous graveyard, up de road, de
chooses was as thick as h'yar on a
dogs back. Mlly she had de rhuma-
tiz powerful, and at last it struck her
innerds, and de Luda took her, and
it sort o. looked like a musufal provi-
dence, seem as how | had to pass by
dist graveyard every Sat'day night.
Lor' me, young mistisses, what y'all
laughin' bout? But as Twas q sayin'
l nebber wants to see chooses 40 thick
er than they used to skip an jump
over dem headbOards and Monuments.
But dey neber make no noise, what
soever. OATS a CHOSE. 1t steps light
er'n a feather. But dis thing what
comes projectin'n along O Mr.. May,
l know what it was, jess as well! But
| amt calm no names, Rilly aint!"
Dill nIEa~nl - h,1 r,nr~I,Asr,, Nf
naming nc names, while contriving to
Indicate pretty clearly an eminent,
though unsavory, theological person
age. He asserted that he had seen
him many times during the period his
~"seekIn';;" that they had it, in fact,
nip and tuck" often and often,
down the road that skirts the grave
yard above mentioned. One peculiar
Ity that he was willing to take his
Bible oath to was that the horns OF
the parsonage in question were blue
in color and GRUMPY in form. He
always rode white horse, too, and
as he scurried after q sinner, had a
trick of brandishing his tail like a de-
vouring lion; distancing the king oil
beasts in this; that tail flashed like
ga streak o. lightnin'" and at times
cracked like a whip.
Under all the circumstances Ihold
that it would not be the fair-minded
thing to sneer at Billy for his resigna.
tion under the providential dispense
ton which relieved him from the ne.
cessIty of travelling this road every
Saturday night. Rheumatic has it's
compensation.
This is theproper place for acquaint-
ing tho reader with the fact that the
graveyard in question together with a
ruined, disused church) lay about one
mile from the judges. Three miles
further was the country seat of our
reckless and skeptical friend Billups.
One mile further was the uGcrt house
village, for which Mr.. May now order
ed his horse.
1t had been BIllup's intentionto de-
fer his departure to a latter hour, but
finding May immovable in his resolve
to set out in defiance Of a probable
soaking, he recklessiy ordered his
horse. Riding alone at night was such
g. bore.
They were approaching the grave
yard.
THAT was an interesting story
that you gave US tonight, Mr.. May.
Were Won serious when Won snid that
the thing actually occurred? or were
you merely amusing the ladies?
Serious? why, of course / was, and
what's more did see a ghost once
though / did not like to say SO before
them.n
Saw q ghost7 ~nonSensel Why, ]
thought you said you did not believe
in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES what's that2i'
That's a screecn-owl. What an
uncanny voice! I don't wonder at
your shivering."
ME shivering at an owl? it's the
damp air."
oh said May dryly. II don't be-
lieve In ghosta any more than you